L'Estrange, GeraldThursday, 24 March 1960 |
Seanad Eireann Debate
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Central Fund Bill, 1960 (Certified Money Bill) — Second Stage (Resumed) and Subsequent Stages.
I hope so.
Central Fund Bill, 1960—Second Stage (Resumed).
The Fianna Fáil Government have been in office for three years and we now have an opportunity of reviewing their work. This Bill also provides us with an opportunity of ascertaining the manner in whi...
That was the Taoiseach speaking when taxation was budgeted at £28 million less than we are budgeting for here to-night and, on that account, I think it is relevant to the debate. If, in 1953, the Tao...
We are concerned with the expenditure of £123,000,000.
The Minister was speaking about expenditure.
I am sorry I cannot share the optimism displayed yesterday by some of the Fianna Fáil speakers. I should like to know if they were sincere or if they were merely speaking with their tongues in their...
No one can welcome a counter irritant as a substitute for a cure and I cannot welcome this Bill because that is precisely what it is. The country needs a dynamic Government who are prepared to work h...
No, I admit that. Young men won the last war and perhaps young men will save this country. The Fianna Fáil Government remind me of an old farmer sitting in the chimney corner of a derelict farmhouse w...
It increased by 30 points——
I am not making the same speech. I could not have the 1960 figures in 1959. The Minister put me down last year when replying and I am replying to him now, and I think I am entitled to do it.
The Fianna Fáil Party appealed to housewives. Fianna Fáil must be the housewives' choice, they said, because the soaring cost of living was robbing the wage packets of their value. These are the wor...
This is a very important point and I think it is very unfortunate that Senator Lenihan, or any Senator, should try to blame or cast aspersions on any Party as regards bovine tuberculosis. All Partie...
The Senator is late now talking about them.
Let him carry on.
Take the month we are in.
The Minister's Party started that controversy, including the man who is in the Park.
You did not agree with that when you were slaughtering the calves.
You promised to do it. That is the difference.
Read the 1948 figure. It was 400,000 odd.
The Minister did not tell us what the pig population was in 1948.
The pig population was at its lowest in 1948. The figures are there to prove it.
And the Minister was £4 down per beast.
The Minister should look up the official figures. They were £3 or £4 a head down.
I claim they were right.
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